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Ariana Miyamoto hadn’t planned to enter a Japanese beauty contest because she figured her multiracial origins meant she couldn’t win. Then a close multiracial friend committed suicide. So Miyamoto, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an African-American man, whose bronze skin and height ...

Katsumoto Saotome was 12 the night he ran for his life through a sea of flames, jumping over smouldering railroad ties along a train track as U.S. B-29 bombers rained incendiary bombs down around him. The U.S. bombing after midnight on March 10, 1945, ...

Okinawa Prefecture looks and feels almost like a different country. And a growing number of islanders say it should be just that. Perennial anger over Okinawa’s hosting of tens of thousands of U.S. troops has flared to a new level after the election of ...

Japan’s massive 2011 earthquake may trigger more, and larger, volcanic eruptions over the next few decades, perhaps even that of Mount Fuji — but predicting them remains close to impossible, a volcano expert said on Friday. The nation last month suffered its worst volcanic ...

Misa Morimoto spoke to no one for 18 years about her identical twin sister who vanished when they were 20, not even to her own children. On the rare occasions when asked, she lied and said her sister was studying overseas. But slowly the ...

Farmers in Fukushima try to convince skeptical visitors that their crops are safe from radiation. Blood trickles from the nose of a reporter who visits the area. These are two story lines found in manga — those ubiquitous comics for adults and teens — ...

Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the ruined Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, barely know what it’s like to play outside — fear of radiation has kept them indoors for much of their short lives. Though the strict ...